Section: European Voice (EU)

Donald Trump, whose â€œAmerican Firstâ€ instincts and Euroskeptic campaign rhetoric rattled his European allies, made his first official visit to Brussels Thursday to meet top EU officials ahead of a summit at NATO â€” an alliance he once described as “obsolete.” While EU leaders are pleased he decided to visit them...

When German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited President Donald Trump at the White House in March, she brought a visual aid to help Trump understand the menace posed by his would-be friend, Russian President Vladimir Putin. Merkel brought out a 1980s map of the former Soviet Union and noted the way its borders stretched for hundreds of miles to the...

AnalystsÂ of U.S. President Donald Trump’s initial budget planÂ are slamming it as builtÂ on fuzzy math. But if Trump’s numbers are fuzzy, his proposal on militaryÂ spending hasÂ NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg feeling all warm and cuddly toward the White House. Trump’s fiscal blueprint, released in Washington just as...

GENEVA â€” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus overcame late attacks on his record in Ethiopia to become Africaâ€™s first director general of the World Health Organization. A charismatic former health minister and diplomat, Tedros, 52, pointed to his track record of developing a vast network of health centers in his country and...

The Ukrainian parliament on Tuesday backed a law that requires major TV channels to broadcast three-quarters of their programs in Ukrainian, AFP reported. “Once again, the Verkhovna Rada [parliament] has demonstrated that it is a Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada, one eliminating the remnants of the Soviet imperialist past,” Andriy Parubiy, the speaker of...

PODGORICA, Montenegro â€” It has the plot of a thriller, even if it doesnâ€™t read like one. In long, tangled sentences, an indictment filed by the chief prosecutor in Montenegro lays out a story of Russian agents recruiting mercenaries to storm parliament on election day and stop the small Balkan state from joining NATO....

WARSAW â The right-wing Polish government is under fierce pressure from the EU to finally begin accepting asylum seekers. But itâs the countryâs leading opposition party thatâs paying the political price. Poland, along with Hungary, has flatly refused to take in any refugees under a 2015 deal that...

The new special counsel investigation into possible collusion between associates of President Donald Trump and Russia is just getting started â and it could take years to resolve. But Trumpâs Oval Office boast to Russian officials May 10 about why he fired FBI Director James Comey will almost certainly trigger a more...

President Donald Trump is facing new pressure over his decision to abruptly fire FBI Director James Comey after the New York Times revealed on Friday that the president told Russian officials in the Oval Office last week that Comeyâs ouster takes âgreat pressureâ off him. Meanwhile, the federal investigation...

Working in President Donald Trumpâs White House is about to get a whole lot harder. Robert Mueller, the former FBI director named Wednesday as the special counsel for investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 election, starts his job with an unlimited time and budget to pursue leads wherever they go. Veterans of previous...